Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Some people think that it’s okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it’s certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.

Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

When you get to the end will God say, "Well done," or, "What was up with that?"

There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.

I want to be one of those cool people that's like, "What is Twitter?" and just be totally blind to it.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.